Mantra Live, Wellington Mill, Manchester

Made a trip to Manchester to see the Mantra Live paint and music event organised in part by the masterful Jay Sharples. Initially I plotted a route to the wrong Wellington Mill, Manchester has two apparently,and then due to the fact that my phone is broke, so I had no internet or GPS, and the fact that I am rather special, I managed to get hopelessly lost! End result I had to be guided in by a very helpful friend, though it was sadly almost 4pm before I got there. On the plus side, the party was in full swing and I was quite confident most of the pieces would be finished before my home time 🙂 Trion SR47, one of two pieces he completed, bur Sid was probably my favourite.

Tasha Whittle in action. Jay Sharples, man of many talents. Rocket01, could’t attend on the day so rocked up a couple of days before and dropped this beauty. Catch22Stemfour Chris ‘Bunny’ Howker Furiouspie. None, the devil is in the detail. Kathy Bates being given the Akse P19 treatment. Doodlesndrips with ‘Frank’. More weird wonderfulness from Infected by Design. Qbek, not a new piece this, but brilliant anyways, the bicycles seem to work with it too. N4T4, lovely guy, lovely piece, not sure if he ever got his burger! 😉 Trik9, this fellow is positively on fire at the moment and he went down a treat in Manchester! Pawskis’ lady complete, one of his best ever I think. Foundry applying the finishing touches to Mr Tesla. Seca stunner.Nomad Clan, first time I’d seen them in action, love their stuff. Sorry, don’t know the artist but this was a real piece of work, fascinating watching it all come together.Since been informed the artist is Betarock75, thanks!

Had a good catch up with some friends, hopefully made a few more too. All in all a great day and fingers crossed, I will be able to find my way there without a problem next time, but I’m not holding my breath! 🙂

Little before I left I was in two minds about whether it’d really been worth the journey that day, but a couple of positive experiences after that really swung it 😀
Sorry we didn’t get to chat much this time, and I had the same feeling about the bikes!